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Comment · 9 years ago
Yep and Google to a bigger extent.
Comment · 9 years ago
Street View wifi data.
Comment · 9 years ago
This is a great business move, the children probably have no option but to provide their personal information to Google.
Comment · 9 years ago
It was doing an update check apparently, which a lot of software does. I bet anything in the same class as ZoneAlarm phones home.
Comment · 9 years ago
What are the odds of memory errors causing hard disk corruption / boot failure?
Comment · 9 years ago
The research isn't conclusive. The research about stress, blood pressure and circulation is much more so.
Comment · 9 years ago
Here are some assumptions I've made that make me think being cold does increase the chance of illness:

• Feeling cold increases stress. ⇒ Stress weakens the immune system.

• Being cold expends energy. ⇒ Fighting a virus requires energy.

• Being cold increases blood pressure. ⇒ High blood pressure is not conductive to good health.

• The cold reduces circulation. ⇒ Reduced circulation is detrimental to health.

Comment · 9 years ago
Can someone explain how the first chatbot was any better than an interactive form?
Comment · 9 years ago
The power of the monopoly to crush competitors and remove user choice.
Comment · 9 years ago
Conversations works fine without draining the battery so I don't see why Signal should.
Comment · 9 years ago
More people should know about Yalp! Awesome.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm one of these lucky 10.
Comment · 9 years ago
Thanks for sharing this. I've done a similar thing to help study for exams except with pattern matching instead of nltk. I'm looking forward to understanding the natural language part.

It's very buggy though... I get more invalid questions than good ones, haha

Comment · 9 years ago
Fixed it for me too, thanks. How did you debug the issue?
Comment · 9 years ago
I could switch to Chrome but I have Firefox set up already and know how it works.

I sincerely hate the Firefox developers for breaking addons constantly and now making it so I can't even edit addons without a painful signing process.

Addons in Firefox seemed more powerful in the past but I'm confident WebExtensions will remove this advantage.

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